On 10.11.2012 04:59, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 10:15 AM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net>wrote: > >> request, so I'm wondering ... does Apache just handle a HEAD as a GET >> under-the-hood and then discard the resulting response body? The comment >> > Unless the handler does something special, yes, httpd will treat HEAD as a > GET until it is time to send the response body...and simply drops the > response body. >
That would imply that, if content-length doesn't get set on a HEAD response, but Transfer-Encoding: chunked does, then everything is correct, right? If somewhat inefficient. -- Branko Čibej Director of Subversion | WANdisco | www.wandisco.com